Fork attachment for removing food or other material impaled thereon.



A. H. EDWARDS. FORK ATTACHMENT FOR REMOVING FOOD OR OTHER MATERIALIMPALED THEREON.

- APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1911.

1,036,472, Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

WTTED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

ARTHUR HENRY EDWARDS, OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

FORK ATTACHMENT FOB REMOVI NG FOOD OR OTHER MATERIAL IMPALED THEREON.

.Toall whom, it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, .An'rnnn HENRY Enwanns, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at 4 Chapman street, Moore Park,Sydney,-in the-State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Aus- 'tralia,-have invented *new and useful Imefficient device which can be combinedwith a fork for the purpose of removing any material impaled upon.its'tines, and the object of the invention .is to so arrange thisdevice that it can be readily and positively operated by .the pressureof the hand holding the fork. In carrying out. this object, I providethe fork with two compressible levers, fixed at one end to the forkshank,

I interjacent the handle and the tines, to actuate a movable element asthey compress and expand, and I provide-the tines of the fork with aterminal element having a sliding connection, through the movableelement,

with the compressible levers, so that thecompression of the levers bythe pressure of the hand holding the fork, will move the terminalelement forward and eject the. material impaled on the tines, and therelease of the pressure therefrom, will effect the restoration of theparts to their initial position.

For an understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowin description and to the accompanying rawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a fork with the device in its normalposition. Fig. 2, is a similar view to Fig. 1, with the device in itsoperated position, and Fig. 3, is a cross sectional view showing theterminal element and the tines.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and draw ln s.

Tn the construction of the device, I use two compressible levers a,which as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are substantially V-shaped. Each ofthese levers a consists of an element 4 brazed or otherwise securelyattached to the fork shank 5 interjacent the handle 5? and the tines 14,and an element 6 having a loopG which encircles the element 4 of theSpecification of Letters I'atent.

Application .filed May 27, 1911.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

Serial No. 629,924.

therewith". The levers a are preferably made of curved spring wire and,in their normal position asshown in Fig. 1, are bowed outward to thelimits permitted by the elements 6 and the keeper 15 which islooped-around theelements 6. The levers a are compressed toward theshank and handle of the fork by the pressure of the hand which isholding the same, the compressed position of the levers being that shownin Fig. 2, and when the pressure of the hand is removed from the levers,they automatically resume the position shown in Fig. l. Slidable on theelements 4 of the compressible levers, are two terminals 9 connectedwith the triangular frame 8 by 'basal members 7, the terminals 9, basalmembers '7 and triangular frame, constituting a movable member. To theapex 10 of the triangular frame 8 is secured one end of a connecting rod11, the other In the use of the device, it is customary i to hold thefork and its attachment in one hand. When the material is being impaledupon the tines, the levers arein the osition shown in Fig. 1.- To ejectthematerial from the tines, the levers a are compressed by pressureapplied from the hand holding the fork, the terminal element 13 thenmoving into the position shown in Fig. 2 and pushing the material fromthe points 4 of the tines, the movement of the-terminal element beingeffected by the sliding connection of the element 6 of each lever on theelement 4 of the other lever, causing their loops 6 to engage with theterminals 9 of the frame 8 and force the terminals 9 and frame 8 in thedirection of the tines and effect a corresponding movement of theconnecting rod- 55 other lever and forms a sliding connection Havingthus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim as new andminal element. 7 v

2. A fork attachment comprising two' 'COIHPIESSlblG spring levers, eachconsisting ated by the sliding connection of the free ends of the leverson each other,'and means connecting the movable element with the terof'a'lever element fixed atone end and hav-' ing its other end movableandslidably connected vwith the other lever element, a movable elementslidably mounted on the lever elements and actuated by the movable endsof the lever elements, and a terminal elementconnected with the movableelement.

3. In the hereinbefore described device, in

combination, a fork comprising a handle part and tines, and a forkattachment comprismg t'wo compressible spring levers, each consisting ofa lever element fixed at one end to the handle part and having itsiotherend relatively movable and looped to form a sliding connection with theother lever, a-

movable element comprising two terminal members engaged by the loopedends of; the

lever elements and a terminal element slidable on the tines of the forkand connected with the terminal members. Q 4. In the hereinbeforedescribed device,a

.fork comprising a set of tines, in combination with a fork attachmentcomprising a terminal element slidable on the tines, a movable elementconnected with the terminal' element, and two compressible levers, eachfixedly connected at one end to the fork and having its other endrelatively free and slidably connected to the other lever to engage withthe movable element. In testimony whereof I have signed my name tot-hisspecification inthe'presence of two. subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR HENRY EDWARDS. ,Witnesses: '1 v WALKER SIGMOND,

HILDA LAUDER.

